What happens if a student asks to re-arrange the tables in a classroom? This article talks about a PYP teacher relinquishing control, standing back and allowing students to change everything.
Archive | Approaches to teaching
Approaches to the central idea
This article puts forward three different approaches to the creation and use of the central idea, including early sharing, student creation and parent creation of the central idea. It communicates the benefits and drawbacks of all three approaches.
How compatible is the workshop approach with the PYP?
This article explains what the workshop approach and the PYP have in common and how both relay to each other.
Feedback to students
This article is about how to provide students constructive feedback that gives the opportunity to take ownership and emerge as lifelong learners. It also highlights the practice of constructive feedback enabling parents to be more engaged with their child’s learning.
Making the inquiry happen
This article encourages inquiry at every step in a PYP classroom.
How connecting children to their land provides authentic inquiry learning
This article encourages the use of nature in authentic inquiry and promotes the hope that every class can spend time outside.